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THE HENDERSON DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, SEPT. 23, 1940
SIC
MURDER TRIAL
At Mays & Harris
I
CAA TRAINING
A
H.
night, Oct. 9.
No. 2
guard of 60 officers and 1,;
Continued From Page 1
wish to ask.
special train on schedule Sun-
mittee to draw up post constitu- grounds. Holman,
for training during
students,
Clubs in sponsoring the meeting.
a
largest oil field's birth-
world's
BOSTON. (UP)
The Ameri-
battles
Brig. Gen. Honeycutt
Artillery Methods
computing artillery range had been
war
No. 6
ITALY, Tex. (UP)
Funeral
Continued From Page 1
inland. , The
barometer
married son in Canada.
visit a
the
Sherman,
$
home.
♦
42.
In 1936 he received an honorary I man.
200
highway
walking along the
by way of Vancouver, B. C. (Im-
yards from the Dallas
son,
H. O. Blanding, of Corsicana.
explosions in which 49
men were
tain aid from the nearest service
Of eight persons who clung to
xas. (UP).
paring to receive
about 2,500
strapped
numbed by cold and expos-
CHICAGO GRAIN
strapped on both sides.
damage was expected.
SELECTED STOCKS
Dowlino
vr
he left the ship, with which the
>
si
Gen Guerrero said Ciuz Villalva,
ese troops at Haiphong for gar-
Indo-
the
Ive
Open High
Low
i
No. 8
956
Continued From Page 1
Dec. .
by dangerous
GERMANS DENY U BOAT
SANK EVACUEE
( I’P),
NEW YORK CURBS
child
J
blue sweater belonging to one of
Oct.
'MIDCONTINENT OIL
(‘omrit tee
NEW YORK COTTON
German , submarine, or auplane-
For Sale!
■ in-
was oporatiirg
fd4 --ile f rom
the. Eritirh
?
FORT WORTH GRAIN
imaH craft had been advised to
note and his hat in the scuffle.
tumres closed very steady.
puvpo e
>
High
Low
calves 4.50-10.00.
k
iMlo: 2 yellow 114-117; 3 yellow Opt.....
to 6 35; padWing sows 5.25-5.50.
dling 9.90; no aalea.
2
/
-ildlzucgsu
I
F
I
Oats: 2 red 40-42; 3 led 39-40.
Barley; No. 2, 60-62; 3, 59-61.
and injured a compan-
Adams, ns they were
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.562
.537
.514
.436
.422
.366
have
eler’s
ables
textile
report
Capt. Fritz Widemann, German
Consul General in San Francisco
and personal friend of Adolf Hit-
tion and by-laws. Ralph D. Hol-1 Foreman. Allison. Truitt. Kiker. H.
man. chairman, and Norman West, R. Knauth, Petrofsky; Boy Scout
cars couldn't pass and when both
stopped the fellow in the sedan
called over and asked Wetzel how-
to get to Alpine. Wetzel said he
was suspicious but couldn't jump
the
six,
?
?
934
918
897
346
949
and the , wide-eyed baby to the
summer camp and general store of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Breitenbach.
that "the Queen and I have seen
many of the places’’ that had been
most heavily bombed and talked
to the people who had suffered
' most.
Mar. ..
‘May ....
July
watched, Wetzel and Wood hand-
ed the baby over to the motherly
Mrs. Breitenbach and started their
captive walking toward a vacant
The "Fast Texas Chapter of the
API will be. joined by the East
Texas Section of the A. I. M. E„
the Fust Texas Geological Society,
the East Texas Oil Association,
The King said that the Brit-
ish commonwealths were united
and that the nation was resolute
and undismayed," despite that
"wanton" German air attacks.
cotton closed today at 9.38.
MARKETS AT A GLANCE
927
906-07
to slightly higher: stere 5.00-8.00e;
yearlings 5.00-10.25; show kinds to
12.00; fa flows 4.25-6.10; cutters
camp
wind
RERUN
stntement
inking of
liner aid
Jan.....
Mar. ..
May ....
July ...
Oct.....
the
the
forces England is fighting.
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
FOR RENT. Nicely furnished
bedroom, close in. Phone 200.
Chinese territory.
But the Japanese Canton army,
it was asserted, went beyond the
agreement and informed the Jap-
anese military mission here that
it was sending troops across the
' ront l -I ing Tast night 'l he
four
to
Captain of Infantry Reserve Wil-echairman, and H.
Ham H. Eanes, recruiting officer Frank C. Bolton;
to
and
of Tyler, will address the Hender-
son American Legion post at their
wekly meeting tonight at the eL-
gion Hut at 7:30 o'clock.
Capt. Eanes will speak briefly to
the local post, and then will answer
miles
nea r
Eggs; No. 1 candled 3.90-5.00.
Buterfat 25-26.
loaded with cartridges,
under his coat,
ers.
Federal troops under Col. Carlos
Vega, conlinued to pursue the rest
of the revolutionaries, the military
932
916
892
943
942
-hanged;
nt tended
kale o
16.
pages
6 63
2 64
3 69
5 71
5 84
2 85
3 92
GUE
DALIAS, I
workout unde
h ip
been
barometer
regi st ering
F ( RT
Lvestock .
Cattle 2
ib Feller,
i young-
game in
the TI-
•the.In-
pennant
hifting
Buy.
942
926
904
952
952
un
Beeman Strong, former Hender-
son resident, has ben made a mem-
ber of the board of trustees of the
new Lamar College which is being
established in Beaumont.
The new college will take in the
Judge James Blanding
Succumbs at Italy
Close
941 - N
941-T
923-25
Cash grain.
Wheat: 1 hard 891-901
Com: 2 white 761-772
735-74].
camp,
i pre-
(ien.
ate i
Lieut.
A rmy
tlii- |
111-114.
Kaffir: 2 white 114-117; 3 white
111-114.
A i my
The
was believed to be irr the town of
Cayame.
the water.
Dei'. --
Spots
No. 10
Continued From Page 1
Matagorda
reach 60 to 70
organized
49
62
66
72
75
77
34
99
players,
pnahans,
bin Gra-
ition for
se Festi-
rls from
Iw, Cow-
s Sears,
Id Koma
Pct.
.662
.578
.548
.510
.490
.469
.425
.322
9.35
919
396
946
946
closed
No. 9
Continued From Pago 1
Longview Man Killed
At Auto Hits Engine
had been thrown into
Sheep 3100; about steady; spring
lambs 7.00-7.50.
No. 7
Continued From Page 1
pf Col. Charles C. Dawes, nephew
of former Vice-President Charles
cross the channel only 25 miles
from our shores. The airfleets of
No. 5
Continued From Page 1
surely as 'the amen’ in church.”
The official DNB agency said
that German planes this morn-
ing flew in over south England
and bombed "vital objectives of
0.
CHICAGO. (UP)—Cash grain;
Wheat: No. 2 hard 811-82.
Corn: 1 yellow 621-641; 2 yellow
64-65; 3 yellow 63-641; 1 white 734.
Oats; Nos 1 and 2 white 32; No.
3 white 29-291; 2 white heavy 33-
331; 4 white heavy 31; 2 red heavy
31L
commitces are: Membership. Jack Paul G. Brown, Holman; athjetics, Texas oil'field.
Petrofsky, chairman, and Charley Farl Clover, chairman, and G. E. Mr. Hill’s subject will be "The
Truitt. E. R. Foreman, A. J. Good- Walker, M. H. Trout, O. G. Hale, Place of Petroleum in the Nation-
No. 4
Continued From Page 1
(
of Criminal Appeals reversed the sold at the open house and the
decision. public will have an opportunity
Earlier this morning defense at- l to inspect the fine stocks in every
torneys had filed a motion for con- l department of the institution,
tinuance in the case on the The affair is a feature of the
FORT WORTH PRODUCE .
can Legion took over Boston to- 1 ______o________
daycfnratssfnur-day, 22nq nation- ' Nazis Boast of New
No. 3
Continued From Page 1
The newcomers were the fore
runners of an expected influx of
National Guardsmen and draftees
which post officials said would
Jean De Coux, the Governor Gen
lah I — aaked—the--peeple—to -hew-
rugged Sierra Madres, 80 milessta ion. . __
southwest of Chihuahua City Sun- — . 1 A
day near Satevo, Guerrero said. Ponies Under Arcs
and
23,88
home, Marc was wearing a long rrorda t
'1 he National Guard i
just west of Palacios, was
The road was so narrow
are urmed noainst
zone headquarters reported. Guer-
rero said Hint 19 of the rebels had
surrendered voluntarily at Chihua-
George Hill Will Be - I HnOT PI
API Speaker at Kilgore | IllU I Ui
on cotton ginnings.
> the enemy launch their attacks
by day and night against our
match.
While the car was still flaming,
he took the automobile of a deer
hunter in the.Sierra Nevada foot-
hills and started up the back road,
with baby Marc on the rear seat.
The road led to the lumber mill
manager by Cecil Wetzel, near
Pine River.
“How the hell do you get out of
cities."
“There is much to encourage
us. . . . We have behind us the
to swell a “guest list" expected to
exceed 300,000. Hotels through-
1 out the decorated city were jam-
l packed.
i.
to the
Department of Judie
-------------
A Federal airplane, laoded with
of three airplane bases in
dny morning.' The train bore 11
officera and 311 enlisted men
from Illinois to this Army bor- . 3
der post.
The order, which ran 61
ment.
The regiment’s trucks. with
the anti-aircraft guns and other
property, are due here Sept. 29.
chairman, and
s will be brought into the
this autumn.
{Open House Tonight Beeman Strong Named
At May* & Harri* Trustee Lamar College
Pen students will now comprise
a unit and a planq must he fur-
nished for each ton trained.
. blockhouse in direct violation of
] the agreement they had wrested
Allen Gullion, judge
general of the Army
from the Sherman ' ion. T. A.
Stocks strong and moderately
active.
Bonds higher; U. S. governments
higher'.
Curb stocks higher.
Foreign exchange steady.
Cotton firm.
Wheat up 14 to 2 cents; corn up
IS t 13 cents. *
man, chairman, and Whitmore
Perry, Guy Hale, John T. Christy,
for the his- tending into China,
headed by Frederick
house and al DefenSe."
ed iew
bullish
Bureau
FORT WORTH, Tex. (UP)—
Produce:
Poultry: Fryers 14-17; hens 9-
12; turkeys 6-11.
•Nava! soure
RIGID RULES IN Recruiting Officer To
Address Legionnaires
three years ago," he said, "Hitler
asked for the severest penalty and
immediate trial. Eight days later
the man was decapitated.”
To the watchers outside the
A "unit”
the summer
hauled
at 8:30
developed," DNB said, "in which
German pursuit planes kept the
upper hand.”
A Nazi informant said that the
Luftwaffe had dropped 50,000,000
pounds of bombs on Britain since
August 10 in 1,000 separate raids.
German sources claimed that
the glare of the fires started
during the night was visible
from the French coast.
The informant estimated that
6,000 industrial plants, including
1,400 in London, had been dam-
aged or destroyed; that 20 per
cent of gas and electric plants in
large English cities had been dis-
abled or destroyed, that impor-
neai the mansion of his parents. '
seemed delighted with the excite-
ment centering about him.
Mrs. Brietenbach fed him con-
somme and ice cream and let him
he was accosted by Wetzel and his
assistant, Ellis Woods.
"Where’d you get that baby?”
Wetzel asked.
Muhlenbroich reached for one of The age limit has been raised
his two guns. to 19 years and date deadlines
ignoring the gun. Wetzel pum-are 19 by Oct. 1 and under 26
meled him to the ground and tied by Oct. 1. '
his hands and feet. Then he and i A year of college work is now
Woods tossed him into the tonneau requirod, meaning that freshman
of the stolen car and drove him studenti will not be eligible as
..... in the past. .Students who have
was 15
finance, Fore-
Berlin. (VP) German mil- Dies in Plane Crash
switch engine.
Hardin was employed by a
Shreveport gas pipeline company.
He is survived by his father,
mother and three sisters.
in 1871 from Liberty Hill, South - , .... . . .
Coralina, and was county judge deathless days was intact to-
military importance.”
“Numerous bitter air
services will be held at Corsicana
today for Judge James N. Bland-
ing, former president of the board
of trustees at Austin College,
minutes, but no one was hit.
Among the five captured, it was
reported, was Manuel Rordiguez,
lVOY -VV . - ■
city limits stocks when the blast occurred,
- in building No. 241, which was
naper’s skull. Bystanders hauled ‘ would probably be allowed
must be
and the
100
evacuation '
"Fecogniz
: link by a '
Close ....
941-Bnook.
943 1
would vary at most about four
yards from a perfect hit.
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Dallasite Killed by
E. H. Lasseter; November 11 ar-
rangements, Preston Allison, chair-
man, and Ben Marable, Ralph Hol-
man; legal, Norman M. West.
arrived Ione-time follower of Pancho Villa’ ' Aceording "to information here,
of them |and an unsuccessful candidate forthe French-Japanese agreement
disaster in the war, o fthe bravery confirm it. Guerrero said Villalva
Allison, chairman, and T. N. Mc-
Carty, Garland Farmer; service,
Barton Giles. chairman, and Alli-
play with her cocker spaniel. Soon --------------------------------
G-men and sheriff's deputies were The full, strength of the storm
swarming over the gold country apparently still was offshore, but
between here and Placerville. headed inland. . The kerreter
nd democrati
th'1 militar
I 'nited, Stnte
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UP).
An Army wrecking crew
started through the swamplands
of Southeastern Georgia today
to the wreckage of an observa-
tion plane which was believed
neWto have carried Brig. Gen. F W
method is used by German coastal Honeycutt and two fliers to
batteries against Dover and other their deaths.
WORTH, Tex. (UP)
weather pe rmits
tary sources said today hhat a
Kurt Stange, said to be one of
Germany's foremost military engi-
neers.
It was claimed that a shell fired
from Calais to Dover (21 miles)
vastly more accurate method of
Dunklin, and his wife, of Cle-
burne, are here for the services.
Dunklin was employed by the
Buckner Construction Company
of Cleburne.
— A
if
slal rd
NEW YORK, t UP) Cotton fu-
tain guarantees” in exchange for
the concessions, ! 161tr
A French cominunique aid that |____
Port O'Connor.”
igned the execut a e ord
Dem r1 ment ‘ of ficiale had
ctive order volume ■
migration officials at Seattle said
they had no record of his en-
trance.)
captain remained to the last. bombs anq piloted by Lieut. Fran-
Dowling rm down into burninr cisco Riva cralted up m the moun-
cabins to bring women and chil- tains 30 miles cast of Chihuahua
dron to deck. Then, diving from city yesterday, but the dynamite 1
111 eboa l again and amin.he am I , . .... . ,
„ । ! ii i bombers ailed to expiode.
Raskay saved n any children who ;
othe r naval
SHIP.
An of ficinl
Hogs 1900; steady to 10 lower ,
| Japanese mission, it was asserted,
I dispatched officers in an airplane
to try to head off the invading;
. 1100DS, without success
advo- , t ,
and । The air bases which Japan IS
to have areat "Im Thu, Lao Kay He expressed sympathy for the
or Phu Land Thuong. and Gialam ■ losses suffered by the people and
for in northeast Indo-China. i especially of the children lost in
It was believed also that i her e 1 last week's torpedoing of a refugee
was n provision by which Japan- | ship at sea.
had entered this country in 1935 of here, rested easy with no wind
by way of Vancouver, B. C. (Im- ! and little additional tide, but
Railways, highways and sky- '
ways brought more and more
Legionnaires, relatives and friends
The Weather Bureau
O'Quinn. both on the charge of as-
sault with the intent to murder. I
The Case of the State vs. Albert I
Griffith, on the charge of wife and
child desertion, has been set for 1
Wednesday after a delay last
week.
velocity was about 40 miles an
The baby was on route when ! hour here. A heavy rain began
Count and Countess) De Tristan ■ about 10 a.m. A big storm area
62 inches, bare-
student must
pounds without.
. good will of all who like freedom,
purposes and the concession "Our friends in .the Americas
have shown us this in many ways."
The King said he was speaking
from Buckingham Palace and
While a score of vacationists
A French communique'said that 1
Indo-China had been offered "cer-
O hornaof New" York.
Mr. Roo ET incorpos atod
. 8-1 and
six hits in
er be ed
anded duel
[ing seven
routed in
first game
ulsa. Slats
omer won
FORT WORTH, Tex, (UP)
and undismayed. As in London so
throughout Great Britain rich in
beauty and historic interest may
be wantonly attacked and hum-
bler homes no less dear and fami-
liar may be destroyed.
"But 'there'll always be an Eng-
. l11’1 d‛te 1 stand before the world «e
a symbol and a citadel of free-
dom."
The war, mi id the King, “is
now at our very doors. The arm-
ies of invasion are massed ac-
ahead prepa rat ions
torii regi l rat ion on
day, will begin Thursday. Oct. 10.
Mora than 30 Kilgore oil field
troops from Missouri when
storm warnings were posted.
Work had just started and little
Mrs. Hickman, her husband and : .
Adams were on a Sundny night au-i * Y damaged.
tomobile ride when a tire was ' , Picatinny, Arsenal is not far
punctured. Hickman stayed witli! from Hercules Powder Com-
the car while hfH wife and Adams ' pany, plant at Kenvil which was
walked down the highway to ob- wrecked Sept. 12 by a series of
• nvnlncinne iw ..l.icl An ----- _______
Open
2 yellow Jan. ..
Marable, chairman, and Hale,
Pendergrass, A. C. Weiss, B. D.
Barlow, Johnnie Walker; improve-
ments. S. V. Evans, chairman, and
Christy, Walton, Walker, Hale,
Holman, Sterling Crim, Kiker, E.
B, Alford, Anthony, Dr. Deason;
sons of tiie legion, Marable, chair-
man, and Weiss, Ed A. MeGannon.
gore, and Frank Buckner of Pine
Hill.
Other cases on the criminal
docket are: The State vs. L. L.
grounds of absence- of witnesses stores big celebration sale now in
but the motion was overruled. progress.
Judge Paul Brown has ex- Mays and Harris extend a cor-
changed benches with Judge R. T. ' dial invitation to everyone in this
Brown for the trial, which is being ' area to attend the festivities to-
held in the Fourth District Court, night and take part in the celet
The jurors selected this morn- i bration.
ing are: M. L. Owens, of Mt. En- |
terprise; George W. । Giles, of Kil- |
holster so he “jumped him."
Wetzel formerly was a college
wrestler and football player.
When they got the baby - out
of Muhlenbroich’s car and
—searched in it they found several
boxeof-munition. Muhlen- ;
broich had an ammunition belt, I
shoulder holsters
Twice the sailor managed to drag who allegedly was one of the lead-
the girl back when she slipped
off. 'J he third time the waves
cial venire of 50 men was called the fiftieth anniversary of the firm.
for.the. trial .. . Souvenirs for the women and I
The case was tried last year and
the negro was convicted and sen- | children will be given.
tenced to 10 years but the Court - There will be- no merchandise I the gasoline tank and applied a
preliminary machinery
teen has appointed standing com- chairman, and H. A. Tetrick, Cliff • the-meeting, the program of which 11
mittees for 1941 which will also be Hale, Elmer Hays, Lasseter; Amor- commemorates the tenth anniver- a
announced at the meeting, Thelicanism, Allison, chairman,- andsaryof the. discovery of the East (
TULSA, i UP) Strong demand
for natural gasoline was the fea-
'ture of the midcontinent oil mar-
ket today.
AT A GLANCE:
Natural gasoline tight.
Light fuels activestrong.
Industrials active.
Lubes steady.
Crude firm.
before noon near .Port O’Connor
coming up. He knew the driver
had no business on the road and
said he was suspicious from the
start.
190 acre farm located on
Highway 43, 12 mies east -
of Henderson, 20 acres in
y o u n g orchard, 3,000
roses. Fenced and cross
fenced with mountain
cedar posts. Two springs
with lots of running
water, Mr. Willie Mills
will be glad to show yon
this farm at any time, J
or write Box 201, Hen-
derson, Tex.
oil equipment show, which will
open in time for A.P.I. members
to attend.
have perpetrated the crime. expect to be in the center of the
“In a similar case in Germany : storm.”
, , , one and tyo of the rule and
.." ” .'. k rerulation governing the‘draft.
" " " । By to doing, he gave the e regu- ।
l lations the force of law.
'I I ’’ order, went into comp ' ' e
was detnil in oullining the machinery
under which 200,000 American
• War ese troops landed in the Indo-Chi- j The children lost, he said, could
rushed na coast might in railroada i x- know nutliing of the “wicked
sea. They told how their life-
boats capsized and they clung to
ihc upturned boats. They told
how women and children died as
the boats fought through the. ------ ----- ------- ..
storm, and bow of the 32 per- Cotton Belt railroad,
sons in one boat, eight were liv- I ’ - •
here?” the kidnaper asked when
ed.”
• One girl may be trained to
.-. . , , each 10 boys if (he sponsoring
cabin. The kidnaper tried a break institution desires. Minimum
for freedom. hnight
The 220-pound Wetzel, a former foot
football player, knocked him down weiAh
with a sledge-hammer blow of his clothing,
fist. Blood gushed from the kid- ; ground
new Conscription
, the agrecment conformed to a
dvisor) I "re alistic"’ policy. In it, Adm.
swell the post to approximately
25,000. Normal peace-time popu-
lation has been between 3,000
and 4,000.
cuon ... aponnozang .... a00g. , The soldiers from Illinois were
Attendance is expected to exceed i housed in the tents temporarily
1 until more permanent canton-
; ments could be buiH.
. . . . .. T he second detachment of the
three-day event to celebrate the 292nd, which is under command
.......1.4'— 1mneect mil +inlel‛e hi t h ec. c.. . . _ - T-
a divided,
ain-raiser,
pking the
Miller's
lining run
til in the
r, rookie
| first ma-
efterpiece.
Survivors told, how, in
KILGORE.— Unele Sam is be-
ginning to tighten up on re-
quirements for training of civil-
ian pilots under the Civil Aero-
nautics Authority program.
Information received here gov-
erning training of students at
Kilgore College this fall show
more rigid rules are being placed
in effect. '
No quota has vet been re-
ceived by the college nor has
final approval for an advanced
training course Thirty students
were trained here during the
summer. .
Students in the summer paid
no insurance, •examination or
training costs. Fall students
must pay for insurance and
medical examinations.
the lights
a was
G. Dawes, will arrive Tuesday
supply companies are planning an morning. Dawes will arrive
Thursday with the third detach-
wheat prices today.
Wheat continued the upturn in
the final minutes of the session to
close 13 to 2 cents higher; corn
was up 1} to 13 cents; oats 3-4 to
1 cent higher, and rye up 11-8 to
1 1-4 cents; soy beans finished 7-8
to 13 cents higher.
; NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS (UP)—Cotton
futures closed steady.
damaging winds and tide above
normal from the town of Mata
lout’ and prescribed most minute
cktipls of. th” regi l ration pro
ceV, was prepared by Her hey,
She said she was afmost sity central at 7 a.m. n short dis-
I too happy to talk coherentiyfance off the Texas roast about
! She said that nurses would stay 30 mit east-northea -t of Reck-
on with him for a few days, but port, is moving north-nerthwest .
that she planned no special me- The center will pass inland
tant railroad junctions had been
disabled, that four main railroad
the stations had been destroyed, that
the Federal agents which reached , down storm warnings
ing when the rescue warship ar- LL.D degr
rived. Four of these were chil- College.
dren, of whom two died aboard He is survived also by
and a group of Kilgore civic
(The liner wn
from, shore at
night).
'questions that members of the post son, Dr. G. A. Deason, V. P. Fer- the East Texas organization, an- (anti-aircraft) Illinois National
guson. Dr. J. T. McClain. Wellborn, nouncod Saturday that Hill had Guard.
Post Commander Horace Chas- J. T. Gray! visiting. H. R. Knauth. ! accepted an invitation to address « । he first detachment of the
- " .... ... mig we terners rolled in aboard
down to the long red seeks his a.m. from Morgan City, La., to
father had given him in San Fran- New Orleans and hoisted south-
cisco. i west warning from Lake
1 . Chanles, la., to Velasco". Toxa-’.
He,saidhe.enioyedtheridebut Arro's Matarorda Penmsula
didn't "ntto make such n trip wlrich guards the entrance to the
again. Speaking in mixed french bay in the storm area lie the
and English, he was undecided bayshort towns of Port O'Con-
whether his kidnaper was a,"Lue-—Port Lavaca, Palacios and
man” or a "good mn." Matagorda.
The child was Kidnaped shortly] The Weather Bureau said that
---- before-noon- -last- Friday-whie- his t he '•torni was of- considerable
fatally injured.
Those hurt were treated in the
post hospital. Their injuries were
I said to be minor.
GUE
. L. Pit.
7 62 . .584
instructor, said
1,000.
The Kilgore Oil Carnival,
Palacios, 25 miles from here
across Matagorda Bay, prepared
to receive the storm.
Mayor J. L. Deutsch of Pala-
cios said that a two-foot tide was
running there.
Freeport, th”
falling lowly.
E. B. Miller, Jr., secretary of , men of the 292nd Coast Arti!
completed two years of college
work are also eligible this year.
Students must al o sign a
pledge thnt they will “be aval!-
ahl for militnrv service if need-
overboard, aft or a brief mutter -
ed prayer, with that of the baby.
f eight persons who clung to Federal troops under Gen. Jose
keef of one overturned boat. Ruiz, contacted th.' rebels, opening;
fire. The shooting lasted several
nurse was wheeling him in a pe-
rambulator. She struggled to save
the child she had nursed since his
birth.
The kidnaper dropper a ransom
Capt: Ft S. Stocks of Fort
Bragg, head of a searching
party which reached the demol-
isher plane yesterday, said the
plane ‘apparently crashed at
full speed" and that he was cer-
tain all three,men were dead.
The ship had been missing
since riday on a flight from
Fort j Bragg to Jacksonville.
Aboard were Honeycutt, com-
mander of Fort Bragg; . Capt
George F. Kehoe, the pilot, and
‛ orp. Robert J. Schnitz.
-- -------0------ ---
Two Employes Killed
In Arsenal Explosion
Dover, n j.' (UP) — Two
civilian employes were killed and
11 others were injured today in
an explosion at the Picatinny
Army arsenal near here.
The men were taking apart
fuses left over from World War
let, R. W. Byrd. W. C. Kiker: com- J. H. Prendergrass;
T. P. Cannon; publicity. Preston
No. 1
Continued FromFage-1
berjack sat with the kidnaper. I
don’t know whether it was
Woods or the other fellow who
sat with the kidnaper.
Before they drove away Wet-
ze— told me how the whole thing
happened.
He said he was driving down
boarded up their store front." hnd
homes. All coasthl craft were .method whereby ..........
tied up and batt' d down manpower oi the I nited. States j 2 50- 00
Joe Dav on, fi hint camp [may be made available for train-
owner at Port O’Connor , sniding in the land and naval force ' top butchers 6.60; bulk good butch-
that his town was prepared for |of the United State as provided | ersers H.40-6.50; mixed grades 5.65
the storm, which cau od heavs by the Congress with the least I
hifting gales over Matagorda poi hle di ruption of the specinl i
Bay. . 'and economic life of the nation.'
that she planned no special pre-
956.57 cautions against harm to him.
c: . . t 9007 "It's all ovel," she, said. and
Spots closed 5 higher; middlins he will forget ali about it in a
days.” Winds vill
1 por hour over
"I want to thank everyone for he center.
everything that has been done for! "Precaution
'.•'ill thnt no
the private road in a lumber
truck when he saw 'this sedan
issued today on the
MARSHALL, Tex. (UP) G. r . . .
G. Hardin, 30. Longview, was kill- i Legonnazres I ake
£uosdanaptinerwnenonishatomo- Over Boston Today
bile Collided with a railroad
moonlight which prevailed at
first after the torpedoing, they : Judge Blanding died at the home Hit-and-Run Driver
could see the bodies of dead j of his daughter, Mrs. K. G. Stroud, |
bbaies thrown about by the angry here yesterday ' He was 89. I IAIIAS/Ip, Bv a margin of
......"" Judge Blanding came to Texas DALAS.‛. Byamagio
----- - .... ----- _ 200 yards Dallas' record .of 113
us," Count De Tristan said.
When he ended his long ride
KILGORE, Texas. - George ArrAn’r DI IOC
A Hill, Jr., president ot the Hous- ME LI EH I UI IK
Wellborn, ton Oil Company of Texas and H I I URI DL1e
chairman of the Division of Pro- ___ 78
duction ot the American Petrol- | gg, ri lge vr - ,
eum.mstitute, will arddress the fall (UP.FortBSssFtookAn°, X
meetng a the East Texas Chapter tim air today with the u
of the.A: P 1 here Wednesday of a tent city to house the va
Erwin and The State vs. James being made ready for them as
other negro, Dec. 3, 1938. A spe- until 9:30 o'clock, celebrating j
a emall area
of Navarro County for four years day
land later an attorney for the1 A hit-and-run driver last night
struck and killed Mrs. John Hick-
comprehension, a calm spirit and
disciplime, and said that Iapan had
agreed to recognize Indo-China’s
integrity ard France's sovereignty. j
FORT WORTH LIVESTOCK
"No pa enger
able a- such ha
German U-hoat
-RyeinNeselesm--T
CHICAGO. (UP)- Short cover-j along beside the car. The Count noon.
ing and speculative buying boosted held his son high above his head ' A dead calm settled over the
so all could see. J vicinits of Rockport, southwest
' The baby was Urcd. sleepy, un-lof the Matagorda Bay area,
smiling, but his face lighted up Rockport, reported n 2'--foot
when his mother lushed outside rise in the, tide, accompanied by
to cradle him in her arms. Flash- ' falling barometer reading,
lights glared and movie flood- Residents of the Central Texns
lights made the setting seem assonstal anea, warned several
unreal as 'a HollyWOod sound! hours in advance of the approach-
. ing storm, took precautions
85 ii , , ,, . .. 1 protect shore property
Police could not bold back the coastal er Ft
line of joyous neighbors. They An advi ory issuied by
didn't really try. Weather Bureau aid:
The beautiful brunette Countess "A tropical storm of “mall
received reporters in a breakfast diameter but ronsiderahle inten-
■'lip or air plane either inside or
outside th' blockade zone.
“German naval and air unit
attack only nrmed merchantmen.
That our only answer to the
British report, which is a brazen
lie for squeezing th” world’ tear
'-land - nd to contribute to bring-
ing tiie United State into the
war on the Ilriti.di ..ide,"
with little wind.
Resident of f’alacios had two
hours to prepare fol the "blow,"
Routed from their bed , the'
Cities Serv 6
Ford Mot Ltd 1 1-4
Gulf Oil 32 1-4
Humble Oil 55 1-4
Lone Star Gas 9 3-8
When the survivors
here yesterday most
"t"Thi"pointtoroxnauaAll"arajpevtrnorgiChihmbtrup"ns Ax called for tanding of 6,000 Japan-
neoded medical care. days. Villalva bad been mentioned i rison
‘Despite the horror, there wasas one of the leaders of the revo-
the story that has been told of ' lution, although military officials
the bravery of each man such said they never had been able to
of the nmallest children and the
oldest women as well as the others.
In st lenst one hont men,
women and children, mome of
them later in dir of exposure,
sang "Rule, Brittnnia."
ce, -a‛d tb
in orderly,
NEW YORK. (UP)—Cotton
future- closed 5 to 7 points
higher today in fairly active
trading. 1
Strength in raw cotton reflect-
He had
araliau.--ef
Amn Avn 17 7-8
Amn Rad & SS 7 5-8
A T & T 165
Anaconda 231-2
Avn Corp 4 7-8
Barnsdall 8 3-8 _______
' Bendix Avn 32 3-8
Beth Steel 81 3-4
Cons 011 6 1-4
) Curtiss Wright 81-8
Gen Elec 35 5-8
Gen Mot 19 3-4
Goodyear 16 5-8
Houston Oil 4 -
Int Harv 48 3-4
Johns-Manv 70
Lockheed Air 30 1-8
Mont Ward 42 5-8
Ohio Oil 6 1-4
Penney J C 91 3-4
Phillips Pet 37
Pure Oil 7 1-2
Radio Corp 5
Sears Roebuck 8.3 1-2
" .Shell Un Oil 9
Socony Vae 9
Stand Oil- N. 35 3-8
Texas Corp 37 1-4
Tex G Sul 32 3-4
i n Aircraft Corp 41 1-2
U S Steel 59 3-8
Wqst Elec 109 1-4
'00 valves 2600; weak
white home of the Count, and to
the relatives within its polished i , .
doors, it seemed like hours before ,1 he I • S. Weather Bureau at
word came that Mare had hepn Corpus Christi reported a gentle
met bv his father in San Francis- i northwest wind and that it ex-
co ' ! pected the storm to —have— ittle-
h. , , I effect in that area.
The Count broke- speed laws on ! The Houston Weather Bureau
the 15-milc drive to Hillsborough, h-eported at mid-morning that
as little Marc chatted in French, the storm was moving slowly in-
As he rolled to his front door a land tow'd (bn I’-r-t O'ciiinm-
dheetbng, whittling .crowd moved area and would strike al out
Col. I ewi B.
map who has
the guy at the time because
neither got out of the car.
As the sedan drove down the
road Wetzel followed closelv. He
said he intended to call for help
as soon as possible.
When they reached the Alpine
road the sedan stopped and the
man got out. Wetzel said he also
got out.
As they approached each other
Muhlenbroich asked for further
directions. He had turned off the
private road in a direction oppo-
site from that previously told
him by Wetzel.
“Whet about that baby in the
back of your car?” Wetzel said
he asked Muhlenbroich. Wetzel
then told me the guy started to
reach for a gun in a shoulder
___I w,... .. ... , found and that it might change the
tady, N. Y.; and four sisters: Mrs. I 11 the conventions formal entire ’ complexion of the
B. Y. Crim, Mrs. G. A. Deason, program sot underway at Bost oil against Great Britain.
Mrs. John Pool and Mrs. Hall i arena today, the annual national
Goodwin. Hll of Henderson. I contests for bands, drum and ss" s ’ V( 71
bugle corps, color guards and .11
H. C. Custard, brother ol Mrs. other teams were held elsewhere!
in the city and at Harvard sta- English points, artillery would play
dium in Cambridge, just as important a part in the war
0 ___ as the German air force.
Tiie method was devolved by Dr.
the warship.
A London publisher held a
dead baby girl in his arms for
hours and pretended to feed it
from its nursing bottle, so its
mother would think it living.
She and her son of I I died in
the lifeboat and like scores of
.others their bodies were put
the draft.
Even before Mi
demand rind a —....... a. ...ou. . wr. -■
by the Census The note, in oddly stilted language, "eek port from Corpus " hristi to
demanded $100 000 for the child’s' eW Oilcan, La.
return and warned his parents not. ,, A hirh tide wa j running at
to report hjs abduction to police Rohport, hut it han , not yet
m FBI agents, reached a huprirenie level, a.
The Count and Countess insert- Co" tingnto J 1 .Mill ,qener.of
- a want ad in" sanFraneinco1 10,' "tP baromTer "X
9,5 Sh,o accordance with detailed steady and all, boat were Led up
902-03 ■structions,. and procured the ■ in t he new ya ht b isin
951-52 1 money shortly after the kidnap-, The barometer still was "good"
950-52 ing. Hour after hour, they waited at Port O'Connor with A reading
mid- by their telephone for word from 1 ,f 29.70, down from normal of
' the .kidnaper. It never came. 30.01. Farther up the coast at
IQ IIKinrnUlAV General Manager Homer Har-
g N NFKWpY ris and Manager F. G. Cook of
" lw UIVULlVVI I Mays and Harris Department'
• .. ------ ’ Store will greet old and new
Three jurors were selected this , friends of Henderson and the en-
2XX X trade area tonight when the old Lamar Junior College there,
knife slaying of Sam Lewis, an- store holds open house from 1:30 ,
heard of his rescue. They were j could be seen moving toward
kneeling ini church, praying for shore.
safety of their only child when I At Rockport, the wind velocity
the word arrived, was 12 miles per hour and the
A few minutes later in San (ide was 18 inches above normal.
Francisco the Federal Bureau of That point apparenily was in the
investigation announced the cap-southwest edge of the storm,
ture of Muhlenbroich and said he Matagorda, 40 miles northeast
Muhlenbroich into the cabin and i take the training.
trussed him on a bed, while Wet- A further new qualification is
zel called the FBI, thnt the student must be a citi-
Marc .Jr., still wearing the red, i zen of the I nited States.
white and blue sun snit in which The course must be completed
the kidnaper found him Friday 1 lan. 31. ____________________
936 944
919 927
897 907
948 956
949 957
S: I., Canterbury.
of the Southern Methodist Uni-
versity Mustangs tonight.
A drizzling rain since Satur-
day has slowed the practice field
but given Conch Malty Bell a
chance to work his boys under
.conditions be helioses may pre-
sail in Los Angeles Friday when
the Mu tangs open their season
against I'J'.LA.
Her hej
intensity and trong enough to
cause heavy damage.
During the nivht, however,
storm warnings had been posted
di along the coastal area, and
lire, slipped off to drown as the
hours passed. A young sailor and
a 19-year-old girl remained.
of ‘elective serv-
dor, i "to ecure
washed her too fa'- for the ex-
hausted seaman to rea<h her. ,
There were two outstanding
heroes-' Francis Ra kay, a Hun-
garian newspaper man, and E. A.
three important subway tunnels
had caved in and that $600,000,000
worth of damage, had been done
to grain elevators, food stores and
mills.
Berlin had a two hour and 22
minute air r.ld alarm early to-
day, its first in a week.
Soon after the alarm sounded,
anti aircraft gun fire was audible
from the direction of Northwest
Berlin, and from Southern Berlin.
Searchlights were inactive and
there were no flares.
After half an hour of silence,
anti aircraft guns fired in all parts
of the city. Apparently a new
wave of British planes had ap-
proached or pierced the outer de-
fenses. It was impossible to tell
whether numerous extra-loud ex-
plosions were due to the anti air-
craft shells or bombs.
9.55: sales 2699.
HOUSTON. (UP) Middling
while one car took the kidnaper, was steady at 29.73.
and another rushed Mure toward Joe. Dawson, .fishing
operator, estimated the
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